Mustard Friends
8 Mar 2020 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneRight now I'm just mad that this Finnish comedy song, Sinappitutut ("Mustard Friends"), based on a viral surreally bizarre Finnish internet event, is only available to enjoy in Finnish because it is truly a classic of all time. The group Kalevauva.fi typically makes their comedy songs out of quotes from the Finnish website vauva.fi (baby.fi) (so Finnish mumsnet?), but this thread occurred on a different messageboard.
Basically what happened is that a woman asked the board at large at what point in a relationship they became Mustard Friends, and then everybody else was like "Became what?" and she acted like it was a term everybody knew but she had just made it up, and insistently maintained an attitude of innocent confusion while explaining that she obviously meant the kind of friends who know each other well enough to comfortably eat mustard in front of each other. Everybody thought she meant various different kinds of euphemisms, but she actually felt that there's something inherently dirty about mustard, the condiment, something unromantic, that makes it inappropriate for a woman to eat in front of a man she's in a relationship with, and as a result, she herself employs various strategems to surreptitiously get mustard when eating condimentable foods, without asking for mustard and making it clear that she wants to eat mustard. The thread kept going for a long time due to a minority of earnest and well-meaning seekers of truth trying to work out any logic or reason and failing.
Basically what happened is that a woman asked the board at large at what point in a relationship they became Mustard Friends, and then everybody else was like "Became what?" and she acted like it was a term everybody knew but she had just made it up, and insistently maintained an attitude of innocent confusion while explaining that she obviously meant the kind of friends who know each other well enough to comfortably eat mustard in front of each other. Everybody thought she meant various different kinds of euphemisms, but she actually felt that there's something inherently dirty about mustard, the condiment, something unromantic, that makes it inappropriate for a woman to eat in front of a man she's in a relationship with, and as a result, she herself employs various strategems to surreptitiously get mustard when eating condimentable foods, without asking for mustard and making it clear that she wants to eat mustard. The thread kept going for a long time due to a minority of earnest and well-meaning seekers of truth trying to work out any logic or reason and failing.
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